Job Description
Sr Project Manager
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Location: Cedar Rapids, IA (Hybrid)
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Contract: 8 months
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Sr Project Manager | Qualifications:
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- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification required.
- Five or more years of project management experience managing medium-to-large, complex projects.
- Demonstrated experience managing technology, software implementation, enterprise application, or technology-enabled business projects.
- Demonstrated experience leading projects through initiation, planning, execution, implementation, transition, and closeout.
- Experience working with cross-functional teams that include business, technology, project management, vendor, and operational stakeholders.
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Preferred Experience
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- Experience performing or leading business analysis, requirements discovery, business case development, feasibility assessment, solution evaluation, or project initiation activities.
- Experience establishing new projects through chartering, resource planning, governance preparation, scheduling, risk assessment, and mobilization.
- Experience developing executive-level recommendations, decision materials, project status reports, and presentations.
- Experience supporting enterprise work and asset management, utility operations, ERP, EAM, or other large-scale business and technology initiatives.
- Experience managing vendor-delivered solutions, contracts, Requests for Proposals, and third-party project resources.
- Experience working in a matrixed environment in which project resources report to multiple business or functional areas.
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Sr Project Manager | Responsibilities:
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Project Initiation and Business Analysis
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- Partners with business and technology leaders to understand strategic priorities, operational needs, business challenges, and desired outcomes.
- Leads or supports business analysis activities to define the business need, clarify the problem or opportunity, identify impacted stakeholders, and document high-level business and functional requirements.
- Translates business needs and strategic objectives into clearly defined project concepts, business cases, charters, implementation approaches, and executable project plans.
- Facilitates discovery sessions, requirements discussions, planning workshops, and stakeholder alignment activities across business, technology, and project teams.
- Develops or supports business cases, funding requests, cost-benefit analyses, feasibility assessments, and executive decision materials for proposed initiatives.
- Defines measurable business outcomes, success criteria, performance measures, assumptions, dependencies, constraints, and value realization objectives.
- Evaluates solution and implementation alternatives in collaboration with business and technology stakeholders. Documents recommendations, tradeoffs, risks, costs, resource needs, and organizational impacts to support informed decision-making.
- Monitors technical and business developments that may affect an initiative and provides recommendations regarding project direction, sourcing approach, sequencing, continuation, modification, or termination.
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